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arxiv: 2603.02897 · v2 · pith:QOILC5SSnew · submitted 2026-03-03 · 💻 cs.CV

ProGIC: Progressive and Lightweight Generative Image Compression with Residual Vector Quantization

Hao Cao , Chengbin Liang , Wenqi Guo , Zhijin Qin , Jungong Han This is my paper

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keywords generative image compressionresidual vector quantizationprogressive transmissionlightweight neural codecperceptual qualityimage codingvector quantization
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ProGIC uses residual vector quantization to build a lightweight generative image compressor that produces progressive bitstreams and runs over ten times faster than prior methods while matching their perceptual quality.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents ProGIC as a compact codec for generative image compression that relies on residual vector quantization to encode image data in successive stages. Each stage refines the previous residual, yielding a bitstream from which partial reconstructions can be formed at different quality levels. The design pairs this mechanism with a slim backbone of depthwise-separable convolutions and small attention modules to keep the model small enough for both GPU and CPU hardware. A reader would care if the approach truly delivers comparable perceptual results at lower bitrates together with major speed gains, because existing generative compressors have been too large for flexible or low-resource use.

Core claim

ProGIC attains comparable compression performance compared with previous methods by encoding residuals stage by stage with separate codebooks in residual vector quantization, producing a coarse-to-fine reconstruction and progressive bitstream, while a lightweight backbone enables over 10 times faster encoding and decoding on GPUs and bitrate savings of up to 57.57 percent on DISTS and 58.83 percent on LPIPS versus MS-ILLM on the Kodak dataset.

What carries the argument

Residual vector quantization, in which a sequence of vector quantizers encodes successive residuals each with its own codebook so that the codewords sum to a progressive reconstruction.

If this is right

  • Partial bitstreams allow image previews before the full file arrives, supporting flexible transmission.
  • The compact backbone permits practical use on CPU-only devices in addition to GPUs.
  • Encoding and decoding run more than ten times faster than MS-ILLM on GPUs.
  • Bitrate reductions reach 57.57 percent on DISTS and 58.83 percent on LPIPS relative to the compared baseline on Kodak images.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Progressive output may reduce perceived latency in streaming applications where bandwidth varies over time.
  • The same staged quantization structure could be tested on video frames to check whether temporal residuals yield similar efficiency.
  • Smaller model size may lower memory footprint enough for on-device compression in mobile cameras.
  • Direct measurement of power draw during encoding would test whether the speed gain also reduces energy use.

Load-bearing premise

The reported perceptual metric improvements and speedups hold when measured on the Kodak dataset against the single baseline MS-ILLM.

What would settle it

A side-by-side test on a separate dataset such as CLIC or DIV2K that finds no bitrate savings on DISTS or LPIPS and no speed advantage would show the performance claims do not generalize.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.02897 by Chengbin Liang, Hao Cao, Jungong Han, Wenqi Guo, Zhijin Qin.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: BD-rate vs. Decoding Latency on the Kodak dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Conceptual illustration of the motivation behind ProGIC. The original image vector is approximated by a base vector plus a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: (a) Overview of the proposed ProGIC. Each down-/up-sampling stage consists of a stack of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Feature modulation in an FFN: at each progressive de [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Rate-distortion performance on the Kodak, Tecnick, DIV2K, and CLIC2020-Professional datasets, evaluated with LPIPS and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of reconstructed images from different methods on Kodak. Values denote DISTS / bpp. Lower DISTS indicates [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: R–D performance compared with the progressive [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: R–D performance with different codebook numbers. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Effect of different weighting ratios p for training. The top-right zoom highlights the low-bitrate region. The bottom-right zoom highlights the high-bitrate region. References [1] Eirikur Agustsson and Radu Timofte. Ntire 2017 challenge on single image super-resolution: Dataset and study. In Pro￾ceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pat￾tern recognition workshops, pages 126–135, 2017. 5 [2… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Reconstruction quality comparison across different [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Visualization of progressive image transmission with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Entropy of different codebook usages in ProGIC. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Rate-distortion curves with and without entropy cod [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Visualization by t-SNE of latent features. The top-left [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: In the event of a forest fire, ProGIC enables rapid response by transmitting images over a satellite short message link, assuming [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Different BPP ranges achieved by varying the number [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Rate-distortion performance on the Kodak, Tecnick, DIV2K, and CLIC2020-Professional datasets, evaluated with PSNR, MS [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Visualization of reconstructed images from different methods on Tecnick. Values denote DISTS / BPP. Lower DISTS indicates [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Visualization of reconstructed images from different methods on Tecnick. Values denote DISTS / BPP. Lower DISTS indicates [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Visualization of reconstructed images from different methods on DIV2K. Values denote DISTS / BPP. Lower DISTS indicates [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Visualization of reconstructed images from different methods on DIV2K. Values denote DISTS / BPP. Lower DISTS indicates [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Visualization of reconstructed images from different methods on CLIC 2020. Values denote DISTS / BPP. Lower DISTS [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Visualization of reconstructed images from different methods on CLIC 2020. Values denote DISTS / BPP. Lower DISTS [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_23.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Recent advances in generative image compression (GIC) have delivered remarkable improvements in perceptual quality. However, many GICs rely on large-scale and rigid models, which severely constrain their utility for flexible transmission and practical deployment in low-bitrate scenarios. To address these issues, we propose Progressive Generative Image Compression (ProGIC), a compact codec built on residual vector quantization (RVQ). In RVQ, a sequence of vector quantizers encodes the residuals stage by stage, each with its own codebook. The resulting codewords sum to a coarse-to-fine reconstruction and a progressive bitstream, enabling previews from partial data. We pair this with a lightweight backbone based on depthwise-separable convolutions and small attention blocks, enabling practical deployment on both GPUs and CPU-only devices. Experimental results show that ProGIC attains comparable compression performance compared with previous methods. It achieves bitrate savings of up to 57.57% on DISTS and 58.83% on LPIPS compared to MS-ILLM on the Kodak dataset. Beyond perceptual quality, ProGIC enables progressive transmission for flexibility, and also delivers over 10 times faster encoding and decoding compared with MS-ILLM on GPUs for efficiency.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes ProGIC, a lightweight generative image compression codec based on residual vector quantization (RVQ) paired with a backbone of depthwise-separable convolutions and small attention blocks. The approach produces a progressive bitstream enabling coarse-to-fine reconstruction from partial data. Experiments claim comparable or superior perceptual performance to prior GIC methods, with bitrate savings of up to 57.57% on DISTS and 58.83% on LPIPS versus MS-ILLM on Kodak, plus >10× faster encoding/decoding on GPUs.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold after addressing controls, the work supplies a deployable, CPU/GPU-friendly GIC solution that adds progressive transmission without sacrificing efficiency, filling a gap between high-capacity generative codecs and practical constraints in low-bitrate settings.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 4] Section 4 (Experimental results): The headline bitrate savings (57.57% DISTS, 58.83% LPIPS vs. MS-ILLM on Kodak) are load-bearing for the 'comparable or superior' claim, yet the text does not state whether MS-ILLM numbers were reproduced under the identical evaluation protocol or taken from the original paper; without this, the deltas cannot be treated as robust evidence.
  2. [Section 4.1] Section 4.1 (Datasets and training): No information is supplied on training-set composition or whether Kodak images were excluded from training, which directly affects the validity of the reported generalization on perceptual metrics.
  3. [Section 4.3] Section 4.3 (Ablation and efficiency): The >10× speedup claim is presented without error bars, run-to-run variance, or details on hardware normalization, leaving open whether the efficiency advantage exceeds typical generative-decoder variability.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract and introduction would benefit from a single sentence stating the approximate parameter count or FLOPs of the lightweight backbone to ground the 'lightweight' descriptor.
  2. [Section 3] Notation for the RVQ stages (e.g., how residuals are defined across quantizers) is introduced without an accompanying equation; adding a compact definition would improve readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and detailed comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below, providing clarifications and committing to revisions where needed to improve the rigor and transparency of the experimental reporting.

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  1. Referee: [Section 4] Section 4 (Experimental results): The headline bitrate savings (57.57% DISTS, 58.83% LPIPS vs. MS-ILLM on Kodak) are load-bearing for the 'comparable or superior' claim, yet the text does not state whether MS-ILLM numbers were reproduced under the identical evaluation protocol or taken from the original paper; without this, the deltas cannot be treated as robust evidence.

    Authors: We appreciate this observation on ensuring fair and reproducible comparisons. The MS-ILLM baseline results were obtained by running the official implementation under the exact same evaluation protocol used for ProGIC, including identical test images from Kodak, metric computation pipelines, and bit-rate sampling. We will revise the manuscript in Section 4 to explicitly state this reproduction procedure and any relevant implementation details. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Section 4.1] Section 4.1 (Datasets and training): No information is supplied on training-set composition or whether Kodak images were excluded from training, which directly affects the validity of the reported generalization on perceptual metrics.

    Authors: We agree that details on the training data are necessary to validate generalization claims. The model was trained exclusively on a subset of the ImageNet training set with no overlap to the Kodak images. We will update Section 4.1 to include the precise training-set composition, size, preprocessing steps, and explicit confirmation that Kodak images were excluded from training. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Section 4.3] Section 4.3 (Ablation and efficiency): The >10× speedup claim is presented without error bars, run-to-run variance, or details on hardware normalization, leaving open whether the efficiency advantage exceeds typical generative-decoder variability.

    Authors: We acknowledge the value of statistical reporting for efficiency claims. The >10× speedup was measured on a fixed GPU hardware configuration, and we will revise Section 4.3 to report error bars from multiple independent runs, include run-to-run variance, and specify the exact hardware and normalization procedure used for the timing measurements. revision: yes

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The manuscript describes an engineering proposal (RVQ-based progressive codec + depthwise-separable backbone) whose central assertions are bitrate savings and speedups measured on Kodak versus MS-ILLM. No equations, first-principles derivations, fitted parameters presented as predictions, or self-citation chains that justify uniqueness are present in the abstract or described structure. The work is self-contained against external benchmarks; the reader's 2.0 assessment is consistent with the lack of any load-bearing self-referential step.

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